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kill: deprecat invocation as 'pid' command name 

Enabling options by renaming command is both unexpected and undocumented.
This magic is now deprecated and with remark of removal of this
functionality in future.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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Sami Kerola 2014-03-09 12:45:35 -05:00
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misc-utils/kill.1
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@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ Specify that
.B kill
should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any
signals.
.IP
The \-\-pid option functionality is enabled when the command
copied or linked to name
.BR pid .
This functionality is deprecated, and will not be removed in March 2016.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue\fR \fIsigval\fR
Use

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misc-utils/kill.c
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@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
numsig = SIGTERM;
do_pid = (!strcmp(program_invocation_short_name, "pid")); /* Yecch */
if (do_pid) /* FIXME: remove in March 2016. */
warnx(_("use of 'kill --pid' option as command name is deprecated"));
do_kill = 0;
check_all = 0;
/* Loop through the arguments. Actually, -a is the only option